Rapid functional recovery after spinal cord injury in young rats

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 559-574

  Brown, Kwame M ^a   Wolfe, Barry B ^a   Wrathall, Jean R ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional recovery; Neuronal loss; Postnatal development; Spinal cord injury; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; RATING SCALE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19444385397     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2005.22.559     Document Type: Article

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